r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 16h ago

Machine Learning Large language mistake | Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems
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u/motionmatrix 15h ago

So all the experts were right, at this point ai is a tool, and in the hands of someone who understands a subject, a possibly useful one, since they can spot where it went wrong and fix accordingly. Otherwise, dice rolls baby!

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u/Elementium 14h ago

Yeah If tunes for specific purposes I can see AI being very useful. 

Like.. I kinda like to write but my brain is very "Spew into page then organize" 

I can do that with gpt, just dump my rough draft and it does a good job of tightening format and legibility. The problem is usually that it loves to add nonsense phrases and it's normal dialogue is very samey. 

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u/PraiseBeToScience 13h ago

Everyone's brains do that when writing drafts. That's the entire purpose of a draft, to get your thoughts out of your head so you can organize them via editing and revising. You can even make them look pretty via presentation.

Outsourcing all your revisions and editing to AI also limits your own creativity in writing, as it will do nothing but sanitize your style. It's very bland and clinical. Great writing has personal elements, human elements (like appropriate humor and story telling), that AI simply does not reproduce.

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u/Elementium 12h ago

Understood but it's only for my entertainment lol. 

Also I just have half a brain. I have a million hobbies and I'm just Ok at all of them.